Monthly Archives: August 2016

Jeremy Corbyn appears to be on course to be re-elected as Labour leader in September. But the bitter right-wing struggle against him shows there can be no compromise with the representatives of capitalism in the Labour Party. This time, let’s finish the job and really transform Labour into an anti-austerity socialist party argues Hannah Sell in the September issue of Socialism Today.

This July marks the 80 years since the fascist coup d’etat in Spain that was met with an heroic revolutionary upsurge by the working class. James McCabe looks at the lessons for socialists today. Was the victory of Franco’s army inevitable, or were the revolutionary opportunities squandered?

The Fine Gael minority government was forced to suspend water charges. Michael O’Brien argues that this is a result of the protest movement that emerged in late 2014, the subsequent mass boycott of the charge and the fundamental weakness of this right-wing administration.